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DragonsHard is essentially rubbish. Its fun, its very much a 90's era RTS before Relic came back with CoH and showed people that RTS could have varied and interesting decisions. Its tech tree and unit types are interesting, but hilariously, completely broken. You can finish the whole Human campaign with nothing but speced up clerics, as everyone in range attacks and everyone who isn't autoheals the others. Its fun, but pointless.

NWN2? Great but painful to play, cant someone fix the interface in a mod please TY?NWN 1? Ugly beyond all recognition but Hordes of the Underdark is a great scripted campaign.Baldurs gate 1&2, mod it up and you have a fun but mechanically dumb romp. THAC0!Planescape Torment Worth experiencing, but my god is the beggining of the story a road bump, early on its all WORDS and you are like "Why should I care" and then suddenly, you care forever.Icewind Dale is Baldur's Gate diluted and strained through a colander. Its lean and and intense.The Temple of Elemental Evil gets praise, but I haven't really got into it yet, its turn based.Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone looks pretty crap.

DragonsHard is essentially rubbish. Its fun, its very much a 90's era RTS before Relic came back with CoH and showed people that RTS could have varied and interesting decisions. Its tech tree and unit types are interesting, but hilariously, completely broken. You can finish the whole Human campaign with nothing but speced up clerics, as everyone in range attacks and everyone who isn't autoheals the others. Its fun, but pointless.

Dragonshard is a shit version of Spellforce, a statement I'm pretty sure will cause your mind to go apoplectic.

Otherwise Torment, BG2, IWD1&2, and NWN2 are all great. My love of PS:T is well known, as if my love of NWN2: Mask of the Betrayer. BG2 is also an incredible game which (THACO aside) has great gameplay and many wonderful fights (As opposed to Torment which has wonderful conversations). The Icewind Dale games and core Neverwinter Nights 2 campaign are fun fantasy romps, with the latter having problems of the engine variety but a lot of good in there too.

Dragonshard is a shit version of Spellforce, a statement I'm pretty sure will cause your mind to go apoplectic.

Hello, My name is Dr. Francis Chickenfeet, I am the user you know as 'Heliocentric's doctor. I just wanted you to know that after he started ripping doors of their hinges and we were forced to sedate him that 'heliocentric' said

Originally Posted by Sedated Heliocentric

Honestly, Dragonshard is a shit version of Warcraft 3 with a few nice features that don't play out well because the game itself it just pointless. It doesn't have a slanting economy which grievously punishes failure*, a hero levelling up structure which requires DOTA like skill and item memorisation* and horrific scripted events which cripple any attempt to play casually*, as well as this the easier difficulties are harder and the hardest ones easier* in the german sensibility of "harder difficulty gets more XP"* teamed up with "enemies of the same type give diminishing returns"* or a the disgusting sliding resource recovery* which means that once you run out of money in your resource locations you slowly starve to death while wave spawning enemies pay no mind to the flow of resources*... I feel sleepy

*I believe he was referring to Spellforce

Upon waking Heliocentric added the following

Originally Posted by Heliocentric

I'm sure Spellforce 2 is fine, it seems well made from the brief view I had on it... Oh god, why am I covered in blood?

Just wanted to report that the keys for Saints Row IV from Amazon.com are region-locked.

Thanks for pointing that out. I was thinking about buying it from Nuuvem (in Brazil), for around 24,- €. But as they seem to be region-locked (again), I think I'll wait for another bargain, maybe ebay?
Seems this might have to do with the later release in non-US regions...damn Internet-oceans :-/

I am German and I just bought Saints Row 4 on amazon.com. Turns out I can't activate the key on steam and it says the product is not available in my region. Looks like they're region-locking pretty hard so beware.

I am German and I just bought Saints Row 4 on amazon.com. Turns out I can't activate the key on steam and it says the product is not available in my region. Looks like they're region-locking pretty hard so beware.

Had the same issue with Saints Row III. I used a VPN to activate it successfully, been playing it ever since without issue. Steam doesn't look to kindly on that though IIRC (the activating part).

Deep Silver aren't getting a red cent from me until the whole region-locking situation become totally clear (especially given the impact of AU censored/ROW keys for Australians), and they deign to respond to all the queries about why in the space of 2 days the Australian version of the game has gone from about to pre-load to delayed a month and now delayed to some random unspecified date in September. And to think it had been a guaranteed pre-order.

Deep Silver aren't getting a red cent from me until the whole region-locking situation become totally clear (especially given the impact of AU censored/ROW keys for Australians), and they deign to respond to all the queries about why in the space of 2 days the Australian version of the game has gone from about to pre-load to delayed a month and now delayed to some random unspecified date in September. And to think it had been a guaranteed pre-order.

So you aren't pre-ordering...

Good job, you made the correct decision. If you have even the slightest doubt or concern, just wait. The game will still be there, and will probably be cheaper.

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Don't spread such lies. Spellforce 2 is not very good. They removed pretty much everything interesting from the first game. Presumably based on the whining of those without taste. What you are left with is a game that isn't bad but is never really interesting at all.